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UK Israel agree to expand scientific cooperation
Britain and Israel have signed a memorandum of understanding to expand their scientific cooperation - despite calls in Britain for an academic boycott of this country. It was signed in Jerusalem on Thursday by Science, Technology and Space Minister Yaakov Peri and British Foreign Secretary William Hague.British Ambassador Matthew Gould and HU president Prof. Menahem Ben-Sasson, along with ...
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Star Catcher Astrology for the week of May 24 2013
GEMINI (AIR) MAY 21 - JUNE 21 Your mind is working overtime and you are so highly charged right now that it may be difficult for you to unwind enough to sleep. Rather than working things out in your mind, write them down and give your hard disc a breather. This is the week for taking care of personal business and for putting your own needs first. Someone from your past is seriously ...
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Israel backing Hungary to chair Holocaust forum
The Foreign Ministry is backing Hungary's quest to assume the chairmanship of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance in 2015, Hungarian prime ministerial chief adviser Zsigmond Perenyi ...
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Shalom Zemach Committee protocols to be published
Energy and Water Minister Silvan Shalom announced on Thursday that he has decided to publish, in the near future, all of the protocols of the Zemach Committee, which made recommendations this fall about natural gas export quantities."I studied the issue at length since I took office and after talks with the Justice Ministry, I reached the conclusion that we must increase transparency ...
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Walking buses Parents bring kids to school on foot
Every Tuesday and Friday - barring inclement weather - groups of children mill their way through the streets of Binyamina together, with a parent acting as their "driver" for their "walking bus" to school."It's like a big caterpillar, a lot of legs and a lot of kids," Orit Yoav, one of the parents leading the project at Amirim elementary school in ...
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Engine fault forces BA plane to land
London - British Airways said on Friday that a plane travelling from London to Oslo was forced to make an emergency landing after a fault in one of the ...
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Heathrow closes both runways
London - Both runways were closed at London's Heathrow airport on Friday, a spokeswoman said, after a British Airways plane reportedly had to make an emergency ...
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Attacker was one of their own
Investigators have not found any link between the London attack and Nigeria's own Islamist insurgency, which is based in the north of that West African country. The Adebolajos were a Christian family, and their surname suggests they are members of the Yoruba community from the mainly Christian ...
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Hundreds mourn young tornado victim
This undated handout photo provided by Brandie Candelaria shows Antonia Candelaria. Candelaria was killed when a tornado struck Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Texas on Monday, May 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Brandie ...
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US expects up to 11 hurricanes in 2013
MIAMI - The 2013 Atlantic hurricane season could be ';extremely active'; and spawn 13 to 20 tropical storms, seven to 11 of which are expected to become hurricanes, the U.S. government's top climate agency predicted on ...
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Hundreds attend Nigerian writer Chinua Achebes funeral
Writer Chinua Achebe shunned Nigeria's corrupt politicians and twice turned down national honours, never fearing to criticise those he felt ruined his country. Yesterday, however, the lawmakers and the country's elite came to praise ...
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Runways closed at Heathrow Airport after BA plane makes emergency landing
The Airbus A319, which was carrying 75 passengers on its journey to Oslo, was forced to return to the airport moments after taking off because of a 'technical fault', British Airways has ...
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Ring Of Fire Earthquake Tremors Felt In Moscow
Two earthquakes have hit the Ring of Fire area, registering magnitudes of 8.2 and 5.7 and prompting a tsunami warning. Moscow felt tremors from the more powerful quake, causing some people to evacuate buildings despite the epicentre being more than 4,000 miles to the east. The US Geological Survey said the epicentre of Thursday's quake was in the Kuril-Kamchatka arc, one of the most ...
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Meat labels getting facelift under new USDA rules
MILWAUKEE Shoppers in the U.S. will soon have more information about where their meat comes from, due to new federal labeling rules that went into effect Thursday. The rules require labels on steaks, ribs and other cuts of meat to say where the animal was born, raised and slaughtered. Earlier U.S. Department of Agriculture rules only required that countries of origin to be noted, so a package ...
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Now some unions upset over Obamacare
WASHINGTON When President Obama pushed his health care overhaul plan through Congress, he counted labor unions among his strongest supporters. But some unions leaders have grown frustrated and angry about what they say are unexpected consequences of the new law -- problems that they say could jeopardize the health benefits offered to millions of their members. The issue could create a political ...
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Russia Syria agrees to take part in talks
Russia says the Syrian government had agreed in principle to attend an international peace conference proposed by Russia and the US, and criticised what it called attempts to undermine peace efforts. The summit has been suggested by the US and Russia and could take place in the Swiss city of Geneva. "We note with satisfaction that we have received an agreement in principle from Damascus ...
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Lebanon sectarian unrest toll rises
At least 23 people have been killed since Sunday in Syria-linked clashes between Sunni and Alawite residents of the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli, a security source said. Thursday was the bloodiest day yet in the clashes, with at least 11 people killed in 24 hours, the source said on Friday. Sporadic gunfire was heard on Friday between the neighbourhood of Bab al-Tabbaneh and the ...
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Russia says Syrian government agrees in principle to conference
Russia and the United States , and criticized what it called attempts to undermine peace efforts. "Damascus has expressed its readiness in principle to participate in ...
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Massive Far East quake felt in Moscow no casualties
MOSCOW (AFP) - A massive undersea earthquake Friday in Russia's Far East prompted a tsunami warning and was felt in cities including Moscow far to the west, but there were no immediate reports of casualties.The USGS estimated the quake at 8.2 magnitude and placed its epicentre in the Sea of Okhotsk off the shore of the Kamchatka Peninsula at a depth of more than 600 kilometres (370 ...
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China says hopes visit of North Korean envoy can ease tension
Choe Ryong-hae (C), director of the General Political Bureau of the Korean People's Army (KPA) of North Korea, walks with Chinese Ambassador Liu Hongcai (2nd R) before departing Pyongyang airport for China, in this May 22, 2013 picture released by the North Korea's KCNA news agency in ...
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Video shows British police shooting soldiers suspected killers
LONDON (Reuters) - Dramatic video footage showing the moment when police shot the two men suspected of hacking to death a soldier in London was published on a British newspaper's website on Friday. The shaky, 10-second clip shows one of the men sprinting towards a police car with a knife in his hand before he is shot and tumbles to the ground. The second man appears to aim a gun at the ...
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Amanda Bynes arrested on bong-related counts
NEW YORK Police say actress Amanda Bynes has been arrested in midtown Manhattan after she heaved a marijuana bong out of a window. It happened at an apartment building on West 47th Street at about 7:40 p.m. Thursday. Police say a building official called police to complain that Bynes was smoking marijuana and rolling a joint in the building's ...
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US tax official put on leave over scandal
Lois Lerner, the Internal Revenue Service official at the centre of the scandal over the agency's extra scrutiny of conservative groups, has been put on administrative leave after she refused to resign, according to a US politician. Republican Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa said on Thursday that Daniel Werfel, the new acting IRS commissioner, was the one who asked for Lerner's ...
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Briton John Steele found hanged in French jail
John Steele, 38, was found by prison guards hanging in his cell on Tuesday, four days after he was remanded in custody. Steele, who had lived near Paris for some years, was believed to be behind a scheme which took more than 1 million in loans from French banks. A Foreign Office spokesman said: "We are aware of the death of a British national in France on 21 May and we stand ready to ...
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London attack
>Are you from the area affected, or London in general? What is your reaction to the incident? Send us your images, video and experiences. London (CNN) -- Why did Lee Rigby have to die?That's what people around Britain -- its officials, its authorities, its citizens -- asked themselves Thursday, a day after the soldier was hit with a car, then hacked to death on a London street in broad ...
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Montreal Metro still trying to replace ageing fleet
The Montreal Metro is ageing, or its trains are at least, with some of them over 60 years old this year, it’s high time for massive investment in an overhaul of the fleet, but the bidding process has been controversial and highly competitive, leading to delays, which it is hoped will provide a lower cost.
Montreal’s metro system is operated by the Société de Transport de Montréal (STM) and was first opened back in 1966, since then it has grown into one of the largest subways in the country and is the busiest in Canada with over 290 million trips taken on the system last year. The 759 trains that operate on the network are ageing and tired, having each carried an estimated 7900 people and plans are afoot to replace them. Read more
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